Weird Al Yankovic has alway been a favorite of mine. As well as Warren Zevon (R.I.P). Both of them were just excelent preformers. Even months before Zevon's passing, he still put on one hell of a preformance on Letterman.

Sorry for the necro here... But I prefered to use this thread instead of creating a new one

So, I've never been too much into national bands, but lately I've heard some nice indie/alternative rock/reggae bands from my country, Venezuela, some are more chill oriented music like Rawayana, Los Mesoneros and Lebronch, and others are more alt. rock like La Vida Boheme, The Asbestos and Viniloversus, if you are interested to hear new music, give them a chance.

That's a tough one, I don't listen to much that isn't metal other than classic Disney songs, but that's not really a band so I don't think that counts... hmmm... now and then I listen to Tool and they're American, so I guess that'll have to do.

Well, I was raised on country music, so usually when I'm not listening to metal I'm cranking George Strait or someone similar. Not a band, but whatever.A friend of mine also got me quite into Incubus, which I never thought would happen. The vocals can still sound a little too poppy for my taste from time to time, but the musicianship is just remarkable. Morning View and Light Grenades, to be specific.

Swans are easily my favorite American band. One of the few bands with a big discography whom I think has never released a mediocre album. It would be easy to pick The Jimi Hendrix Experience as well, though the two lesser parts of the group were British. Fiona Apple is my favorite American solo artist.

This is tough question. Probably Stone Temple Pilots or Stevie Ray Vaughan. I really, really love pretty much all of STP's discography, and SRV's Texas Flood is one of the greatest albums ever (in any genre). Runners up include N.W.A. and Joe Satriani.

_________________"I am drunk as fuck, driving around town drunk, I'm on dope, and I want you to call the police. Not only that, but I got a loaded hand gun right here. I'm gonna start firing this off. So please call the cops." --Ricky, "Trailer Park Boys"

From the Faroe Islands? It has to be either Gipsy Train (Ska/Reggae/Lo-Fi/Rock) or ORKA a band that uses purely instruments, which they've created from material found in a set place (The first one was a particular barn, and included acid bottles and buzz saws).

I enjoy a number of australian band's music. I am only 18 however, so i have mostly been exposed to Australian bands through the radio/music channels and my dad's music collection, so i only know a couple of songs from most of these bands (The songs i have linked, plus a couple more that might be played on the radio). Also i don't enjoy them to the point where i listen to them on a regular basis, i enjoy them more in a 'if a song of theirs i recognized were to come on the radio, i wouldn't turn it off' sort of way

That would be Knorkator. I wouldn't call them a metal band though many of their songs use metallic elements. Basically they combine electronic, industrial, metal, rock and countless other things to ridiculously exaggerated, dramatic music, satirizing more or less everyone and everything. The lyrics, normally bordering on the absurd, really play an important role in this, so the concept is mostly lost to anyone who doesn't speak german.

AC/DC and especially Airbourne are pretty arguably metal. Airbourne play metal festivals every year and almost all their fans are metalheads. AC/DC to a lesser extent, but still. There's not much point (only IMO) to these types of threads if people just post borderline metal.